Much of what the early Sangheili government used after the Great War was, in one way or another, influenced or mimicked by a similar system used by the Covenant Empire. It took a very long time for any changes to be made to make their political systems fully unique and their own. For military units, however, even decades after the Covenant's fall, they still used conventions and ranking by the former empire. In late 2558 CE, preparations were first formed and planned to create an new force which had no equal within the various remnant factions of the Covenant - the Faded Guardsmen.